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Mamata Banerjee On 3-Day Visit To Mumbai From Tomorrow

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to meet Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar and her Maharashtra counterpart Uddhav Thackeray. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be on a three-day visit to Mumbai from tomorrow, during which he is scheduled to meet Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar and her Maharashtra counterpart Uddhav Thackeray. She is also expected to meet industrialists in Mumbai on December 1 and invite them to Bengal Global Business Summit, to be held in April next year. “Mamata Banerjee will be on three-day…

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Bodies Rotting Since 2020: Horror For 2 Families Struck by Covid

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Durga Sumithra, 40, and Muniraju, in his 50s, died on July 2 last year, as per documents from the ESI Hospital at Rajajinagar in Bengaluru. Nearly a year and a half after they lost their loved ones to Covid, two families in Bengaluru have received news that’s as painful as their loss — the bodies have been rotting for over a year in the hospital’s mortuary. Durga Sumithra, 40, and Muniraju, in his 50s, died on July 2 last year, as per documents from Employees’ State Insurance Corporation and Model…

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Indian-Origin Parag Agrawal To Replace Jack Dorsey As Twitter CEO

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Parag Agrawal, who became chief technology officer in 2017, will become a member of the board. Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc., is stepping down, ceding the position to the company’s Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal. The move is effective immediately, though Dorsey will stay on the board of the social media company until his term expires in 2022, Twitter said in a statement Monday. “I’ve decided to leave Twitter because I believe the company is ready to move on from its founders,” Dorsey said in…

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“Different From Delta”: Karnataka Minister On Positive Case At Airport

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Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar said the samples have been sent for genome sequencing for further examination, he said. A passenger back from South Africa has tested positive for a Covid strain “different than Delta”, Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar said today and added that the state government is closely looking at the new ‘Omicron’ strain that has set off alarm bells across the country. The test samples, he said, have been sent for genome sequencing for further examination, he said. This comes after two South African nationals…

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TMC moves SC alleging violation of court orders for free and fair Tripura municipal polls

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The Trinamool Congress moved the Supreme Court on Friday seeking a probe by a court-monitored panel into the alleged large-scale violence during the municipal polls in Tripura. A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna was told by senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who sought urgent listing of two applications filed by the party, that despite the court’s order of Thursday for providing unhindered access to the media to the election process, nothing was done. He said, There was absolute mayhem there. Even candidates were not allowed to vote. There…

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Govt can consider phased manufacturing plan for AC industry: Jain

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The government is willing to look at extending a phased manufacturing plan (PMP) for the AC industry to check imports and increase local value addition and employment, a top official has said. Secretary in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Anurag Jain said this while responding to suggestions made by some of the CEOs present in a roundtable to come out with a PMP for the AC industry on November 25. The government is willing to look at the PMP for the AC industry to check…

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Second group of Iraqis return after failed Europe gamble

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A second group of Iraqis returned home to northern Iraq on Friday after a failed quest to reach the European Union, citing maltreatment and abuse suffered at the hands of Belarusian authorities. Over 170 people returned on a flight that landed in Irbil International Airport after 2 a.m. in Iraq’s northern Kurdish-run region. A disproportionate number of repatriated Iraqis from Belarus have been Iraqi Kurds. It is the second repatriation flight to return from Minsk. On Thursday 430 Iraqis returned home. Another flight was expected to arrive at 7 a.m.…

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Delhi Assembly suspends 1, marshals out 2 BJP MLAs from special session

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The Delhi Assembly on Friday suspended BJP MLA Jitender Mahajan from its one-day special session and also marshalled out BJP legislators Anil Bajpai and Mohan Singh Bisht for allegedly disrupting the proceedings of the House. Other Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs walked out of the House to boycott the proceedings in support of their suspended and marshalled out colleagues. As soon as the proceedings of the special session began, the BJP MLAs demanded to be heard on various issues such as the new liquor policy, rising air pollution in the…

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What the Peng Shuai saga tells us about Beijing’s grip on power and desire to crush a #MeToo moment

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Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai’s apparent disappearance may have ended with a smattering of public events, which were carefully curated by state-run media and circulated in online clips. But many questions remain about the three weeks in which she was missing, and concerns linger over her well-being. Peng, a former Wimbledon and French Open doubles champion, had been out of the public eye since November 2, 2021 when she penned a since-deleted social media post accusing former Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli of sexual misconduct. In the U.S. and Europe, such…

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My feelings for Hawkeye have only deepened: Jeremy Renner

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 It’s been a decade since Jeremy Renner took on the role of Hawkeye and the actor says he is grateful for all the experiences that came his way while playing the character in multiple Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films. Renner played Clint Barton aka Hawkeye, an expert marksman and archer, for the first time in 2011’s “Thor” before becoming one of the central figures of the MCU with “The Avengers” (2012). Since then, the 50-year-old actor has essayed the role in “Avengers: Age of Ultron”, “Captain America: Civil War” and…

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